The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady and the Van

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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812969650
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady and the Van written by Alan Bennett and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent’s Park flat stripped bare--right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, the couple faces a perplexing question: Who are they without the things they’ve spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly a world of unlimited, frightening possibility opens up before them. In “The Lady in the Van,” which The Village Voice called “one of the finest bursts of comic writing the twentieth century has produced,” Bennett recounts the strange life of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who parked her van (overstuffed with decades’ worth of old clothes, oozing batteries, and kitchen utensils still in their original packaging) in the author’s driveway for more than fifteen years. A mesmerizing portrait of an outsider with an acquisitive taste and an indomitable spirit, this biographical essay is drawn with equal parts fascination and compassion.

The Clothes They Stood Up In

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782831525
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Clothes They Stood Up In written by Alan Bennett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.

The Uncommon Reader

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429934530
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Uncommon Reader written by Alan Bennett and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.

The Complete Talking Heads

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423087
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Talking Heads written by Alan Bennett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two series of monologues written for BBC television and broadcast in 1988 and 1998, along with 'A woman of no importance', an earlier monologue first televised in 1982.

Four Stories

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847653871
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Four Stories written by Alan Bennett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands The painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In The comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright The savage satire on the family of a dying man who rules over them from his hospital bed. The Lady in the Van The true story of the eccentric old woman who is invited to live in a homeowner's front garden. She stays there, in her van, for fifteen years. The home is Alan Bennett's. It became a West End hit and a major film, starring Maggie Smith.

Untold Stories

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571246893
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Untold Stories written by Alan Bennett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with the likes of Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud. Also included are his much celebrated diaries for the years 1996 to 2004. At times heartrending and at others extremely funny, Untold Stories is a matchless and unforgettable anthology. Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George. The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. 'Perhaps the best loved of English writers alive today.' Sunday Telegraph Untold Stories is published jointly with Profile Books.

Kafka's Dick

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Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573692093
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Dick written by Alan Bennett and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester

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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740768387
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester by : Bill Amend

Download or read book And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester written by Bill Amend and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of the comic adventures of the Fox family.

Laying On Of Hands

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Publisher : Eastwood Anaba
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
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Download or read book Laying On Of Hands written by and published by Eastwood Anaba. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Six Poets

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217838
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Six Poets written by Alan Bennett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassures us that the poets and poems in this volume are not only accessible but also highly enjoyable. He then proceeds to prove irresistibly that this is so. Bennett selects more than seventy poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin. He peppers his discussion of these writers and their verse with anecdotes, shrewd appraisal, and telling biographical detail: Hardy lyrically recalls his first wife, Emma, in his poetry, although he treated her shabbily in real life. The fabled Auden was a formidable and off-putting figure at the lectern. Larkin, hoping to subvert snooping biographers, ordered personal papers shredded upon his death. Simultaneously profound and entertaining, Bennett’s book is a paean to poetry and its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice. its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice.

The Lady in the Van

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9781781255407
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book The Lady in the Van written by Alan Bennett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film tie in edition of Alan Bennett's classic memoir. For fifteen years, the recalcitrant Miss Shepherd lived in her broken-down van on Alan Bennett's driveway in Camden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord, never under the illusion that his impulse was purely charitable. This account of those years was first published in 1989 in the London Review of Books. The play premiered in 1999, direct by Nicholas Hytner and starring Dame Maggie Smith, who reprise those roles in this new film adaptation. Shot on location at Bennett's house, Alex Jennings plays the author, alongside household names including James Corden, Frances de la Tour, Jim Broadbent and Dominic Cooper.

The Clothes They Stood Up in

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Clothes They Stood Up in written by Alan Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, wry and ironic tale. The Ransomes have been burgled; everything has gone, even the lavatory paper. For the stuffy solicitor and his downtrodden wife it marks a turning point, a kind of liberation. Nothing will ever be quite the same, even when their possessions reappear as they left them.

Three Stories

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ISBN 13 : 9781861976338
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Three Stories written by Alan Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever collection in paperback of Alan Bennett's fiction - published in the year when he has been given the British Book Lifetime Achievement Award Here are Alan Bennett's hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling novellas, brought together in one book for the first time: Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. Over 60,000 sold in small format. The Clothes They Stood Up In, has sold over 200,000 copies as a small novella and was 14 weeks in the Bestseller lists. It is the painful story of what happens to an elderly couple when their flat is stripped completely bare. The Laying on of Hands, a memorial service for a masseur to the famous that goes horribly wrong. Over 100,000 copies sold as a novella. Like everything Alan Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. And they all have a brilliant and surprising twist; are immensely funny and profoundly moral.

Father! Father! Burning Bright

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782831517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Father! Father! Burning Bright written by Alan Bennett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths he had failed his father. It was not like him to die like that. Nor did he.' Midgley is determined to deny his father a last occasion to be disappointed in him. He will do the right thing and sit by his father's bed-side in Intensive Care until he dies. But, even when he is unconscious, his father manages to make Midgley's life a misery. This is another classic story by Alan Bennett, with brilliant portraits of social hypocrisy and stifling family relationships.

Speaking with the Angel

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241959462
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Speaking with the Angel written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking with the Angel is a collection of short stories, edited by Nick Hornby Hear the Prime Minister explain to the House why he did a runner from Greenford Park service station and hitched a lift with a fifteen-year-old girl, as imagined by Robert Harris. Listen to someone who has a small hostile creature in his room, as told by Roddy Doyle. Twelve voices, twelve completely new stories, narrated by twelve different characters. And all written by twelve of the most exciting and popular writers around: Robert Harris, Melissa Bank, Giles Smith, Patrick Marber, Colin Frith, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, John O'Farrell and Nick Hornby himself. This sparkling collection has been put together by bestselling novelist Nick Hornby, who also contributes an Introduction about TreeHouse, an organisation that offers a unique and pioneering approach to the education of children with autism. £1 will go to TreeHouse with every copy sold of Speaking with the Angel.

Long, Last, Happy

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802196209
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Long, Last, Happy by : Barry Hannah

Download or read book Long, Last, Happy written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection. A fitting summation of one of America’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Barry Hannah’s final unfinished collection, Long, Last, Happy. The astonishingly varied stories in this collection span nearly five decades of unremitting brilliance. Praised for writing “the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America” (Sven Birkerts), Hannah’s ferocious, glittering prose and sui generis worldview introduced readers to a literary New South—a fictional landscape that encompasses “women, God, lust, race, nature, gay Confederates, good old boys, bad old boys, guns, animals, fishing, fighting, cars, pestilence, surrealism, gritty realism, the future, and the past . . . tossed together in glorious juxtapositions” (Vanity Fair). Long, Last, Happy confirms Barry Hannah as one of our most brilliant voices. “Hannah is the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction; an electrifying Mark Twain—a wailing genius of literary twang, reverb, feedback, and general sonic unholiness that results in grace notes so piercing you heart melts like an overloaded amp.” —Interview

Vanity Fair

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: